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Dan Kaminsky is the Seattle-based hacker and computing consultant who found a gaping hole in the security of the internet, due to a fundamental design flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS). This lead to a massive industry-wide patching effort led by Microsoft, Cisco and Sun, which ameliorated the problem. Now Wired has told the story behind the scenes in Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends...
Dan Kaminsky is a supergeek in Seattle. He’s a computer security expert, using the typical superpowers of network packet analysis, free WiFi from Starbucks, and a job at Microsoft. But last January, Kaminsky’s Spidey Sense tingled: he had discovered a flaw in the Internet’s DNS (Domain Name System), the globally distributed system [...]
Wired's Joshua A Davis has a great profile of my pal Dan Kaminsky's work on discovering and then helping to fix a net-crashing DNS bug earlier this year. Davis really captures the excitement of discovering a major security flaw and the complex web of personal, professional and technical complications that come to bear when you're trying to disclose the research in a way that minimizes harm to...
Wired's Joshua A Davis has a great profile of my pal Dan Kaminsky's work on discovering and then helping to fix a net-crashing DNS bug earlier this year. Davis really captures the excitement of discovering a major security flaw and the complex web of personal, professional and technical complications that come to bear when you're trying to disclose the research in a way that minimizes harm to...
Kaminsky was alone in his Seattle apartment when he discovered a security vulnerability that could leave banks, online retailers, and ISPs open to hackers. Paul Vixie organized experts from around the world to address the DNS security flaw. In January 2005 on a drizzly Sunday afternoon, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky...
Wired’s Joshua A Davis has a great profile of my pal Dan Kaminsky’s work on discovering and then helping to fix a net-crashing DNS bug earlier this year. Davis really captures the excitement of discovering a major security flaw and the complex web of personal, professional and technical complications that come to bear when you’re [...]
Wired’s Joshua A Davis has a great profile of my pal Dan Kaminsky’s work on discovering and then helping to fix a net-crashing DNS bug earlier this year. Davis really captures the excitement of discovering a major security flaw and the complex web of personal, professional and technical complications that come to bear when you’re [...]
Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web . Wired’s take on the story of Dan Kaminsky’s breaking-the-internet DNS vulnerability. Horrible headline.
In June 2005, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky decided to get in shape. He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips and read that five minutes of sprinting was the equivalent of a half-hour jog. This seemed like a great shortcut--an elegant exercise hack--so he bought some running shoes at the nearest Niketown....
Joshua Davis writes on Wired.com : In June 2005, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky decided to get in shape. He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips and read that five minutes of sprinting was the equivalent of a half-hour jog. This seemed like a great shortcut—an elegant exercise hack—so he bought some running...
In June 2005, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky decided to get in shape. He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips and read that five minutes of sprinting was the equivalent of a half-hour jog. This seemed like a great shortcut—an elegant exercise hack—so he bought some running shoes at the nearest Niketown....
